SHOAL CREEK,
Alabama - Esteban Toledo says he's a man of his word. When he says he's going
to do something, he does it.

"I told my
wife - at the time it was my girlfriend - I was going to marry her, so I did,"
he said. "I told a lot of people I was going to get on the PGA Tour but they
did not believe that I was capable to play the PGA Tour. I promised myself and
I promised a lot of people I would get on the PGA Tour."

After 10 years,
the Mexican golfer nearly gave up. He promised himself in 1993 he was going to
do it the following year and he did.

"I practice
probably twice as much as before and I made it to the PGA Tour," he said. "I
told a lot of people I was going to play well and stay there for a while and I
have done it."

Now Toledo
is playing on the Champions Tour, set to compete in this week's Regions
Tradition. The 51-year-old is conducting a kids golf clinic this morning at 10.

Toledo is the first Mexican to win on the
Champions Tour. He earned a pair of titles in 2013.

"I'm the
kind of guy that what I say, I do it," he said. "If you try to do something for
good, you always do it. I told people I was going to win on the Champions Tour
and I've done it. It took me a little while but I did it."

Toledo said
he was nearly 20 when started playing seriously, although he had played some as
he grew up next to a golf course.

"I didn't
have any money so I kind of had to learn in a different way, to get a job and
play at a golf course," he said. "It's been a long journey, a long path for me."